Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a cadence.
- adjective Of or having to do with a cadenza.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to cadence, or a cadence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
cadence or acadenza .
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Examples
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We're used to pieces ending with a predictable plugged-in cadential module; Poulenc plugs in a module, but it's not the predicted one, and our musical expectations are yanked in two directions at once.
Les anges musiciens Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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We're used to pieces ending with a predictable plugged-in cadential module; Poulenc plugs in a module, but it's not the predicted one, and our musical expectations are yanked in two directions at once.
Archive 2007-11-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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It might seem like a stretch to say that Schumann intends to link these four songs (possibly along with another, "Mondnacht," which ends somewhat similarly) merely through this stock cadential figure.
Categorical denials Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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(In addition, there's a strong literary echo of the seventh song, "Auf einer Burg," in the eighth, "In der Fremde.") "In der Fremde" brings the cadential figure back:
Categorical denials Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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(In addition, there's a strong literary echo of the seventh song, "Auf einer Burg," in the eighth, "In der Fremde.") "In der Fremde" brings the cadential figure back:
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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It might seem like a stretch to say that Schumann intends to link these four songs (possibly along with another, "Mondnacht," which ends somewhat similarly) merely through this stock cadential figure.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Olbermann does have a weird cadential thing going on throughout these 12-plus minutes ... but dammit, I'm glad he said it.
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Ends of phrases were slightly ornamented, probably from quite early on, to provide satisfactory cadential suspensions; it is unlikely, at least in choral performance, that general ornamentation was introduced.
Archive 2008-02-01 bls 2008
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Now on the other hand, the English iambic tetrameter is a hesitating, loose, capricious form, always in danger of having its opening semeion chopped off, or of being diluted by a recurrent trimeter, or of developing a cadential lilt.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov Wilson, Edmund 1965
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See, again, No. 22 of the Songs Without Words; the first and second phrases are small; the third phrase, however (reaching from measure 6 to 9 without cadential interruption), is of regular dimensions.
Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition Percy Goetschius 1898
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